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STEEL DISPUTE IS CALMED BY MISS PERKINS Labor Secretary Picked by Roosevelt for Task of Restoring Peace. CONFERENCES TO OPEN Adjusting of Collective Bargaining Differences Is Major Problem. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 20.—Labor troubles of the steel industry calmed temporarily today under the coolv efficient direction of a woman— Labor Secretary Frances Perkins — in whom President Roosevelt has vested the task of restoring peace. Small, but a bundle of energy, Miss Perkins set out, in her own way and with her own ideas, to bring burly labor leaders and steel barons together on a basis of settlement. This failing, she will swing j the government's newest big stick— j arbitrary power to move in and force labor disputes settlements. Miss Perkins was alone on the battle front, union leaders having returned to Pittsburgh, and the steel bosses, the Iron and Steel Institute, closely guarding private talks in New? York. Her job was to avert a nationwide steel strike by adjusting collective bargaining representation differences. The union has proposed a majority representation plan which the operators fear will sound the death knell of so-called company unions. If the militant little secretary can hurdle this obstacle, there will be no strike. If she can’t, she will invoke the newly enacted labor legislation signed by President Roosevelt yesterday. It was understood her first move | would be personal conferences with : the bosses, but no definite date has j been set. She next will confer with ! the union, hoping to weld the dispu- ! tants in a bond of amicable rela- \ tionship. Galloway Case Delayed A request for a jury trial for Fred Galloway, 42, of 29 North Mount j street, labor organizer, and Tom I Smith, 501 Birch avenue, Kingan employe, was made today after Municipal Judge Dewey Myers continued Galloway’s case until July 6 at the state’s request. Both men are charged with disorderly conduct. They were arrested as they were spiking before Kingan employes at the plant. Gi4loway is business agent and Smith is an officer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Union which has threatened to call a strike at Kingans and Armour & Cos. Tire Production Halted By L nited Frets* AKRON, 0., June 20.—Machinery j of the General Tire and Rubber j Company stood idle today as 500 j men stopped work pending outcome of a conference between union andj plant officials. Workers from other shifts gathered outside the plant as the conference went on. Union officials declared the committee w r ent into the executive offices to discuss wages, hours and union recognition. Company officials said the committee was complaining about “plant operation.” Alabama Miners Strike By i nited Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala., June 20. Seven hundred coal miners at the Moss and McCormick shafts here were on strike today for higher wages and better working conditions. Arbitration steps will be taken at once, union officials said. Union Head Fired by NRA By United Prt ss WASHINGTON, June' 20.—One thousand clerks at blue eagle headquarters fumed in vain today over discharge of their union president, John L. Donovan, by Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. General Johnson, who fired Mr. Donovan on insubordination charges and who insisted angrily that the case be closed, was flying to Memphis, Tenn., on a speech making expedition. The members of Local 91 of the Federation of Government Employes, however, insisted General Johnson had not heard the end of the affair. They said Mr. Donovan's discharge would be placed before the national labor board, with charges preferred against Mr. Johnson almost exactly similar to those that have been placed against several hundred industrial employers. General Johnson, they said, would be accused of discriminating against Mr. Donovan because of his union affiliations. The NRA chieftain has said he would be glad for the case to go before the labor board and that he would abide by its decision. Times Index Page Auto news 4 Bridge 6 Broun 11 Britain in Fear (a 5erie5)........ 11 Classified 16 Comics 17 Crossword puzzle 18 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial 8 Hickman —Theaters 4 Lippmann 11 Pegler 11 Radio .: 13 Serial story 17 Sporte 14, 15 State news 10 Vital statistics 8 Woman’s pages 6, 7

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 34

REFRESHING PLAYGROUND POOLS AND SAND PILES PROVE ATTRACTIONS FOR CITY CHILDREN

GEORGE NAYLOR DIESjUDDENLY Shortridge Coach Victim of Heart Disease; Funeral Friday. George A. Naylor, 44. member of the Shortridge high school faculty, died yesterday at his home, 3740 North Pennsylvania street, from heart disease. He had been taking treatment for heart disease several weeks. Mr. Naylor came to Shortridge following the World war as a military instructor in the reserve officers’ training corps. In 1924. he

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overseas two years during the World war, retiring from army service with the rank of first lieutenant. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church and the Masonic order. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Eunice J. Naylor; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Naylor, Salt Lake City; a sister, Mrs. Inez McCauley, and four brothers, Clarence Lawrence, Harold and Eugene Naylor, all of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held Friday from Hisey & Titus funeral home. Complete arrangements have not been made. X-RAY TO BE MADE OF BROKEN BONED BABY Framework to Be Removed If Fractures Have Healed. New X-ray pictures were to be taken today of Caroline Ruby Mercer, month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hansel Mercer, 1245 West New' York street, who was born with more than fifty fractured bones. The pictures will be compared with those taken three days’after the baby’s birth. Dr. J. F. Rigg, attending physician, plans to remove Caroline from the wooden framework on which she was placed at the Methodist hospital shortly after birth, if the pictures shows the fractures are healed suffciently.

YOWLING CITY DOGS DELIGHTED WITH NEW GAME—COPS ARE ‘IT’

A frolicking, snapping pack of dogs repulsed the efforts of a valiant but lone humane society officer, Sergeant William Dever, today in the neighborhood of 1300 East St. Clair street. Confronted by fifteen dogs of all sizes and varieties, Sergeant Dever sent an SOS call to headquarters for reinforcements. When a squad headed by Sergeant Prank Reilly arrived, the dogs scampered down alleys and across lots. The officers finally rounded up a few yowling dogs, who seemed to be delighted at the new game. CONGRESS GOLD ACT UPHELD BY COURT Public. Policy View Supported by Missouri Judge. By United Press ST. LOUIS, June 20.—Constitutionality of the action of congress in declaring it against public policy to make payments in gold was upheld today by U. S. District Judge Charles B. Faris. If Judge Faris’ position is sustained by the supreme court, it will mean that all government and private obligations may be paid in paper money, regardless of prior contracts. Vienna Bombings Continue By United Pres* VIENNA, June 20.—Bombings by Nazi terrorists continued in Austria today. An explosion at Wiener Neustady demolished shop windows and another at Schwechat destroyed a telephone booth. K

Refreshed by a swim in the Garfield park pool, little Rosalind McHugfy (right), 810 Woodlawn avenue, pauses en route to the playground. With no primers or sums to bother them, these children (upper), play happily at the Garfield park sand pile building castles. Play grounds officially were opened Monday.

was made instructor in physical education. He had made plans to leave this morning for Camp Wain wright on Lake Oliver, near Lagrange, where for the last four summers he had been in charge ot physical education. He w'as coach ot freshman athletics and varsity golf at Shortridge. Mr. Naylor was

Vice-President Garner Comes to City; Reporter and Porters Roar Welcome

NEW BETHEL ACTS TONIGHT ON TYPHOID Residents to Map Campaign at Mass Meeting. Residents of New Bethel, where typhoid has stricken a dozen persons and caused death during the last two and one-half weeks, will hold a mass meeting at 8 tonight in the New Bethel high school to consider means of combating the disease. Meanwhile, Dr. Oscar Ludwig, county health commissioner, and New Bethel physicians pressed their hunt for a possible typhoid carrier among New Bethel residents. Speakers at the mass meeting, where all possible methods of combating the spread of the disease will be discussed, will include Dr. Ludwig, and Dr. Thurman B. Rice, of the Indiana university medical school. • At Deaconess hospital here, it was said that no statement could be made as to the condition of Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams. 63, and his son-in-law, Walter Askren, 30, the two latest victims. In New Bethel, physicians called on Dr. Ludwig for more of the antityphoid serum which the county is supplying free for those unable to purchase it.

By United Press BUTLER, Pa., June 20.—Blueblooded. Mrs. Ralph Hinchliff was en route home to Rockford, 111., today after spending two days in a jail “vulgar and detestible — utterly at variance with my social position.'* Ms. Hiixhliff, returning from a Connecticut preparatory school with her son William, pased a stop sign, among other things, accord-

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934

‘Cactus Jack/ Tired Out, Opines He’s Pleased With Congress.

JOHN NANCE GARNER VicePresident of the United States, a lonely, beetle-browed figure staring out of a railroad compartment, passed through Indianapolis today and was met by several grinning porters and one newspaper reporter. ‘Gentleman Jack’ wore a limp, nondescript business suit and was guarded vigilantly by railroad officials. “Are you satisfied with congress?” the reporter shouted at the window. “Ahm well satisfied,” Mr. Garner drawled. There was some confusion as to just who was coming into town. tt tt U THE mayor s office understood that Republican Charley Curtis, former Vice-President, was the celebrity passing through so they politically avoided any reception. Railroad officials were none too sure as to just who Mr. Garner was. “Oh, the Vice-President,” they answered when informed as to who the gentleman was. John Nance Garner, Vice-Presi-dent of the United States, passed out of Union station, a lonely, beetle-browed figure staring out of a train window.

ing to F. A. Gavaghan, state highway patrolman. Squire Will Lardin fined her $5. “This is an outrage,” Mrs. Hinchliff said, “because although I am temporarily financially embarrassed, I wouldn’t pay the fine anyhow. I am of the Emersons—the colonial Emersons of New England, sir. I will go to jail.” At the jail, Sheriff Dewitt Stevenson tried to make her comfortable.

PRESIDENT HONORED AT YALE CEREMONY Law Degree Conferred in Colorful Rite. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 20. President Roosevelt today received from Yale university the honorary degree of doctor of laws in a colorful, dignified ceremony in historic Woolsey hall. The hood, symbolic of the doctorate, was draped around the chief executive's shoulders by William Lyons Phelps, Lampson professor of English. At the conclusion of the exercises, the Presiednt and his party left Woolsey hall to motor to the Yale dining hall where he was the guest of honor at the alumni luncheon. TUGWELL IS SWORN IN No. 1 * Brain Truster Becomes Agriculture Undersecretary. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 20.—Rexford Guy Tugwell, the administration’s No. 1 brain truster, was sworn in as undersecretary of agriculture today. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 68 10 a. m...... 83 7 a. m 70 11 a. m 'BS 8 a. m. 76 12 (noon).. 86 9a. m.!... 80 Ip. m 88

“I will remove neither my coat nor my hat. Certainly I am not at home here,” she said. All night she stood looking out through the bars at the scudding clouds. Came the dawn. “Did you sleep well?” asked the sheriff. “Indeed, the sky was beautiful as it changed from gray to the blue of anew day at sunrise,” replied Mrs. Hinchcliff. Her 18-year-old son ( wired Governor Gifford Pinchot:

KEENEST DETECTIVES OF 3 NATIONS BAFFLED BY MISSING BRIDE MYSTERY

NAME JURY TO TRY DAUGHTER OFJNISTER Norma Millen, Young Bride of Killer, Accused of Part in Holdup. By United Press COURTHOUSE, DEDHAM, Mass., June 20.—A jury was selected in ten minutes today to try Norma Brighton Millen, minister's daughter, as the alleged accessory of a trio of killer-bandits. The jury was composed of two salesmen, a chauffeur, a molder, an electrician, a granite dealer, a filling station proprietor, a postal worker, a plumber, a painter, a clerk and a laundryman John Riordan, teller at the Needham Trust Company, who was taken as a hostage by the bank raiders but escaped, and who was the sole identifying witness against Faber at the recent Faber-Millen murder trial, was the first witness. Mr. Riordan’s testimony was largely a repetition of that which he gave at the Faber-Millen trial. He described how „hree men held up the bank, slew a policeman who intervened, and fled with some $15,000. Defense counsel George Douglas began laying the groundwork for a defense predicated on the contention that the demure Norma was dominated by her husband, and that anything she may have done in a criminal way was done because she lived in fear of her life. Arnold Mackintosh, bank treasurer and second witness, corroborated much of Mr. Riordan’s testimony. Court then ordered the luncheon recess. As she was being led out, Norma was kissed by her father and stepmother. She began to cry. Then her real mother stepped to her side and whispered words of encouragement. Norma nodded and left.

FIRST LADY HEADS ‘RADICAL’ LIST FILED BY NEW YORK COPS

By United Press NEW YORK. June 20.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Henry W. Wallace, secretary of agriculture; Harold L. Ickes, secretary of interior, and others of national prominence are named on a confidential list of “dangerous radicals” in tne possession of New York secret police, according to the New York Post. The newspaper said the list was kept “under lock and key.” The list, it added, is in the form of a “little red book” called "The Red Network,” compiled and published by Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling of Kenilworth, 111. * Others mentioned in the book are Senator William E. Borah, Senator George Norris, Professor Irving Fisher of Yale. Mahatma Gandhi. Newton D. Baker and Harold H. Swift. RECEIPTS SET RECORD U. S. Income Tops 3 Billions for First Time in Three Years. By Cnited Press WASHINGTON, June 20.—Income of the federal government for the current fiscal year, which ends ten days hence, crossed the $3,000,000 mark today for the first time in three years, the treasury reported.

Rehabilitation Goal of New Roosevelt Program

Migration of Millions to ‘Greener Fields/ Hope of President. (Copyright. 1934. oy United Press! WASHINGTON, June 20.—Congressmen scurrying today to the hustings of a general election year carry with them anew Roosevelt campaign platform comprising lurther experiments in planned national economy. The program may put the administration on the political offensive. President Roosevelt has promised that the next two years of national

“It is a disgrace to Pennsylvania to jail a woman of my mother’s standing because she slowed down but did not come to a dead stop at an intersection.” Mrs. Hinchliff, remarking that “such things are not for people of my sort,” refused any food at the jail. After her release yesterday, however, she ate a fullcourse dinner at the hotel and announced she was starring for home.

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International Search for Body of New York Woman Lawyer Pressed as Husband Is Grilled in Vienna. ‘PERFECT CRIME’ BALKS SOLUTION t Attorney, Unseen Since Dec. 20 After Marriage to Adventurer, Victim of Murder, Gotham Police Believe. BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 20.—The trans-Atlantic mystery of how and why Agnes Tufverson disappeared came perilously close today to the most ominous category in police annals—“the perfect crime.” The keenest minds of detective forces in three nations continued to narrow their search for clues, refusing to admit “perfection” in any crime. But they were balked—temporarily at least—by the Tufverson case which has spread its vague threads from Michigan to New York to England and to Vienna.

GARDNER FREED ON $5,000 BOND Judge Baker Admits Suspect in Case Slaying to Bail. Frank Gardner, 49, Spencer hotel case proprietor, today was freed under $5,000 bond by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker after hearing conflicting testimony as to what part Gardner had played in a brawf May 25 which ended fatally for Thomas E. Sargent, 36, envelope salesman and Civic theater actor. “There is no evidence here to show there was the intention to kill on the part of Gardner sufficient to sustain a first or second-degree murder charge,” Judge Baker ruled. Earlier, Myron Yorger, 5545 Allisonville road, a member #f Mr. Sargent’s party of six at Gardner’s case the night of May 25, had testified that Gardner struck Mr. Sargent three times with a blackjack, then obtained a larger blackjack and hit him again once or twice. Mr. Yorger said the Sargent party ordered dinner immediately after reaching the case. Then, he testified. he and Mrs. Burnham Moore, Louisville, Ky., another member of the group, began to sing. “Mr. Gardner came over and told us, in a most offensive manner, to stop,” Mr. Yorger testified. “Mrs. Sargent (the actor’s wife) said, ‘We don’t have to stay here. Let’s go some place else and eat.’ ” Mr. Yorger said the group left the restaurant except for Mr. Sargent, who stayed behind to speak to Gardner. The witness said he saw Mr. Sargent's hand on Gardner's shoulder, but saw no blow until Gardner went behind a counter, obtained a blackjack and struck three times. GALE HITS NEBRASKA AND SOUTH DAKOTA Crop Loss Incalculable as Heavy Rains Accompany Wind Storm. By United Press SIOUX FALLS, S. D., June 20. Wind which uprooted trees, smashed windows, and disrupted wire communications swept northern Nebraska and part of South Dakota today with a heavy toll in property damage. Damage to corn and wheat, just recovering from a calamitous drought, was incalculable.

administration will be directed toward guaranteeing security to American men and women. He defines security for the individual as embracing: 1. Productive employment. 2. Protection against misfortune. 3. Proper housing. To make good on the promise of productive employment, Mr. Roosevelt forsees the federally-directed migration of millions of Americans —men, women and children—from comparatively unsatisfactory areas to greener fields. He expects millions of acres of northwest and southwest plains practically to be evacuated and revert to forest and grass lands. Mr. Roosevelt’s objective is rehabilitation of many hundreds of thousands of American families under a policy designed to realize the "greater good for the greater number of persons.” The magnitude of the plan startled political Washington. For the next congress, Mr. Roosevelt has instructed his advisers to prepare the plan for migration of populations and for social insurance to protect the masses against misfortune. Insurance against vnemployment and old age are the second objectives. Wage earners probably will contribute some part of the revolving fund with which chose guarantees will be met.

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They put together their newest evidence, especially from New York sources, to narrow down the movements of Ivan Poderjay, who bigamously married Miss Tufverson, on the days just preceding and following her disappearance. They questioned and re-questioned Poderjay and Mme. Suzanne Ferrand, his wife, in Vienna where they are held. They talked by telephone from New York to Vienna police headquarters to compare notes. They used trick X-ray lamps on baggage and clothes of the missing woman found in Vienna. They sifted the ashes in the incinerator of Miss Tufverson’s New York apartment house. British Captain Hunted They sought a mysterious English Captain Frederick Ravey, reported to have disappeared after an acquaintance with Mme. Ferrand. And when they had fitted together all of their evidence, the police of New York, London and Vienna admitted they could prove practically nothing. They knew only that Agnes Tufverson, a successful, self-made corporation lawyer, who had been too busy for love in her youth, had “married” Poderjay in New York last December, had quarreled with him on the pier from which they were to sail for Europe, had returned with him to their apartment at 10 p. m.—and had disappeared. They believed, on the basis of reports today, that Poderjay or a man resembling him, had bought a black trunk next day and taken it to the apartment. They knew that, the day after that, he took the black trunk to the pier and sailed alone. But actually, the police could not prove that Miss Tufverson had “disappeared.” The facts merely showed that she had not been located since Dec. 20. No Proof of Murder Even most significant in the case, more amazing to the public and most vexing to the frantic police, was the lack of a corpus delicti. Police are convinced that the strong-willed and capable woman, who toiled in a factory to educate herself, who became a college graduate, an acquaintance of distinguished persons and a lawyer with a good clientele, is dead. They believe she was murdered. But they have no body to prove she is dead. They have no evidence was murdered. They can’t even be sure they can extradite the clever bigamist, Poderjay, from Vienna. They are up against a fantastic possibility that many criminals have attempted to convert into fact. They •were directing every effort at blasting a possible “perfect crime” by concentrating on search for the body. Porthole Was "Large” Pressing a search for Miss Tufverson’s body, Assistant Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan said he still was seeking one of four trim’s shipped from Miss Tufverson’s apartment here Dec. 22 when Poderjay sailed for Europe on the Olympic. “Four trunks were shipped and we have located only three of them,” Mr. Sullivan said. “The fourth, we understand, was a large one, and probably was new.” He believed the missing trunk was “large enough to have held a body.” Inspector Sullivan said the porthole of Poderjay’s cabin aboard the Olympic was exceptionally large. He said “it might be possible” that the trunk was disposed of during the voyage. Adventurer Is Grilled By United Press VIENNA, June 20.—Deeply involved, according to police, in a tangle of contradictory statements, Ivan Poderjay, international adventurer, continued under police examination today as to his knowledge of the disappearance of Miss Agnes Tufverson, New York and Detroit lawyer. Mile. Margaret Ferrand, whom Poderjay married in London in March, 1933, according to records there, remained adamant under intermittent questioning that has lasted two days.